Had a watch for a client, which we normally don't do, but they are a customer for many other products and asked us to look at some watches about 6 months ago. We did, they were simple black backs, and we tried one and it worked, so we did a small batch for them. This time, the owner brings a watch in, wants it engraved to give to his son. Wants 4 words, around a circle, one of them being "Love". I put the watch in, and drew a reference circle so I could align it with the watch back. For some reason, which I don't always do, I said "I should probably put this against some stops". I got it all lined up via the reference circle, and engraved it on the fiber laser. I picked it up and immediately realized that the "L" in "Love" was missing. I hit undo and sure enough, when I deleted the reference circle, I accidentally deleted the L. 5 pt handwriting font, so it's little bitty.
I was sweating it for a minute. Many times I have just sat something on the table and engraved it and moved on. Had I done that, I'd be trying to figure out how to orient it all properly again. Being the font is so small, the red dot pointer isn't much help, because it's more of a blur at that size than anything else.
Instead, I bumped it against the stops, selected the "L" and engraved it. Perfect!
Just a friendly reminder. Take 2 minutes and bolt something to the table to use as stops. It might save you some issues.